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"From now on I am telling you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I am He.

So Simon Peter nodded to this disciple and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking."

Jesus then answered, "That man is the one for whom I shall dip the piece of bread and give it to him." So when He had dipped the piece of bread, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

So after receiving the piece of bread, he left immediately; and it was night.

"In My Father's house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be.

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

"And whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever;

"And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let's go from here.

"Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

"Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

"My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

"But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: 'THEY HATED ME FOR NO REASON.'

"These things I have spoken to you so that you will not be led into sin.

"But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What is this that He is telling us, 'A little while, and you are not going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"